since jx raves about Marché aux Puces de Saint-Ouen, I went there to take a look. It’s sprawled over a large area, lines more than 5 small roads and 1 main one. It seems like a combination of several markets coz there are different themes. The outside area has youth clothes, the roads to the [...]
Song i like: Chen Xiao Dong – Feng Yi Yang De Nan Zi [my chinese input is not installed]
i think i like the chorus part alot. even if my chinese is terrible, anyway it sounds nice. lyrics.
and also Celine Dion’s S’il suffisait d’aimer.
oh well, listen what you will
and then there are some other audio files [...]
omg, ryanair is like so funny
That ad, published Monday in the French daily Le Parisien, shows the smiling couple with a comic book speech bubble coming from Bruni’s head saying: “With Ryanair, all my family can come to my wedding.”
sarko and his gf are just plain funny too. anyway sarko plans to sue ryanair
i guess France, being such a large country, has many different newspapers, but this classification taken from the Lonely Planet guide entertained me to no end:
Le Figaro – centre-right, aimed at professionals, businesspeople and the bourgeoisie
Le Monde – centre-left, popular with professionals and intellectuals
France Soir – right-wing, working and middle-class
Libération – left wing, popular with [...]
I saw this picture online in ‘Le Figaro’ (french newspaper) yesterday, and I think it’s really nicely taken. It’s so pretty. Unfortunately it’s copyrighted and all so I can’t steal it, but I like it alot. Haha. Reminds me of buying carnets (10s) of those tickets. I think they’re cute, a nice small card. A [...]
I was reading StraitsTimes, and they had a small article on the sad tourists who arrive in Paris only to face the cold wind and dearth of public transport. [hey i like the word dearth] There were some people who were trying to get to Versailles. That’s impressive, coz Versailles is this huge palace that’s [...]
Link: Le Figaro
The strikes in France enter their 6th day, which is rather impressive. The commuters are getting extremely frustrated with the transport unions/workers. Therefore yesterday (Sunday) they held a strike of their own, to protest against the transport strikes. How cool is that. «le privé vache à lait du public, ça suffit, halte aux [...]
The phrase of the week:
“Votre Frigo Est Plus Rempli Que Votre Vie”
which I got from someone’s blog. rather amused by it. it means: your fridge is more well-stocked/filled than your life. and i googled the sentence but didn’t get any results at all.